Re: [PROBLEM] [2.6.0-test6] Stale NFS file handle

[Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.ping.de>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:30:50PM +0200, Malte Schröder wrote:
> Hi,
> since 2.6.0-test6 I get "Stale NFS file handle" when transferring
> huge amounts of data from a nfs-server which is running on -test6.
> The client also runs -test6. Transfers from a server running kernel 2.4.22 
> work flawless.
> 
> I use the nfs-kernel-server 1.0.6 on Debian/sid.

Hallo Malte,
Hallo list-members,

my solution for getting a reliable NFS Server with 2.5 kernels was
to use "no_subtree_check" in /etc/exports.

(The next thing is pasted, please read below the code)

I stumbled over the following lines of code in fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c:

int nfsd_acceptable(void *expv, struct dentry *dentry)
{
        struct svc_export *exp = expv;
        int rv;
        struct dentry *tdentry;
        struct dentry *parent;

        if (exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_NOSUBTREECHECK)
                return 1;

        tdentry = dget(dentry);
        while (tdentry != exp->ex_dentry && ! IS_ROOT(tdentry)) {
                /* make sure parents give x permission to user */
                int err;
                parent = dget_parent(tdentry);
                err = permission(parent->d_inode, S_IXOTH, NULL);
                                                  ^^^^^^^ <- !!!!
                if (err < 0) {
                        dput(parent);
                        break;
                }

First, nfsd_acceptable always returns success if subtree_checks are
diabled. Second, I think, the line marked above is not correct.

The comment says "give x permission to user", but the call looks
suspiciously wrong.

You can also make the error disappear by allowing setting all x bits
for "other" from your mount-point down to the directory where the error
appears.

Echoing "32767" to /proc/sys/sunrpx/nfs_debug helped me a great deal
to find that error.

Cheers,
Patrick